Cardiology · Advanced

Inflammatory heart diseases in the cardiologist's practice

Myocarditis, pericarditis, and endocarditis: how not to miss cardiac inflammation and how to build a management strategy based on current clinical approaches.

18academic hours

Advancedlevel

Distance learningmode of study

Course curriculum

Relevance, terminology and classification of inflammatory heart diseases
Clinical significance
Epidemiology
Risk groups
Association with heart failure
Terminology and definitions
Clinical variants
Classification of myocarditis and pericarditis
Special forms — oncology patients: immunotherapy (ICI myocarditis), radiation pericarditis, HIV-associated, post-COVID
Clinical presentation and differential diagnosis
Myocarditis: from nonspecific symptoms to life-threatening conditions
Clinical variants
Diagnostic algorithms
Pericarditis: classic and atypical presentations
Modern diagnostics: from screening to confirmation
Algorithm of primary examination
Red flags
Instrumental diagnostics
Lake Louise protocol
Laboratory diagnostics
Endomyocardial biopsy (EMB): indications (ESC 2023)
Dallas criteria
Differential diagnosis
Diagnostic algorithm for chest pain
The «masks» of myocarditis and pericarditis
Practical tool: PERICARDIO-score for assessing tamponade risk
Treatment: from basic therapy to complex cases
General principles
Treatment of myocarditis and pericarditis
Treatment of resistant forms
Post-COVID and vaccine-associated myocarditis
Autoimmune and toxic forms
Rare forms
Myocarditis in children and pregnant women
Algorithms of actions for the primary care physician
Indications for hospitalization and referral to specialized centers, and for emergency hospitalization
Dispensary follow-up, rehabilitation

Inflammatory heart diseases easily masquerade as other pathology, and the cost of a diagnostic error here is especially high. The course examines the differential diagnosis of myocarditis, pericarditis and infective endocarditis using specific clinical analyses from practising cardiologists.

After the training you will recognise the inflammatory nature of cardiac symptoms earlier and build well-grounded tactics for managing and monitoring such patients.

Davydova Anna Vladimirovna

Cardiologist, functional diagnostics specialist

Cardiologist and functional diagnostics physician of the first qualification category, a member of the European and Russian Societies of Cardiology, as well as specialized communities of arrhythmologists and heart failure specialists. She combines clinical cardiology with functional diagnostics and has 19 scientific publications, which makes her classes useful for learners mastering the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases.

Specialist in cardiology and functional diagnostics; physician of the first qualification category. Member of the European and Russian Societies of Cardiology, the Russian Society of Arrhythmology, and the Heart Failure Society. Author of 19 scientific publications.

Education

2011 — Pacific State Medical University, specialty "General Medicine"
2013 — residency in the specialty "Cardiology", Siberian State Medical University
2016 — professional retraining in "Functional Diagnostics", I.I. Mechnikov North-Western State Medical University

Continuing education

2018 — "Current Issues of Modern Cardiology", V.A. Almazov National Medical Research Center
2021 — "Functional Diagnostics", Federal Scientific and Clinical Center for Specialized Medical Care and Medical Technologies of the FMBA of Russia
2023 — "Cardiology", Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education (RMACPE)

Memberships and awards

Member of the European and Russian Societies of Cardiology
Member of the Russian Society of Arrhythmology
Member of the Heart Failure Society

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